Paul Dacre

Theresa May’s team in No. 10 read the Daily Mail with interest, not least because the prime minister’s official spokesperson James Slack is the mid-market tabloid’s former political editor.

Fleet Street’s longest-serving editor, Paul Dacre, backed Theresa May in the Tory leadership race but will likely meet any attempts to soften Brexit with fury. Bold front page headlines like April’s vow to “crush the saboteurs” with the surprise general election, and November’s, which branded judges who ruled Article 50 could not be triggered without a House of Commons vote “enemies of the people,” are Dacre’s stock in trade.

Along with fellow Brexit-supporting papers, the Sun, the Daily Telegraph and the Express, Dacre is sure to keep up sustained pressure on the government.

PARTY: No party

POSITION: Editor in chief of the Daily Mail

MP SINCE: Not an MP

REMAINIAC OR BREXTREMIST? Brexit

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